hemlock
Meanings
- Any of the poisonous umbelliferous plants, of the genera
- Conium, either Conium maculatum or Conium chaerophylloides.
- Cicuta (water hemlock).
- Poison obtained from these Conium and Cicuta plants.
- Any of several coniferous trees, of the genus Tsuga, that grow in North America; the wood of such trees.
- A number of places in the United States:
- An unincorporated community in Taylor Township, Howard County, Indiana.
- A census-designated place in Richland Township, Saginaw County, Michigan.
- A census-designated place in the town of Livonia, Livingston County, New York.
- A village in Perry County, Ohio.
- An unincorporated community in Tillamook County, Oregon.
- A township in Columbia County, Pennsylvania.
- An unincorporated community in Floyd County, Virginia.
- Synonym of Stabler, Skamania County, Washington.
- An unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia.
- An unincorporated community in Jackson County, West Virginia.
- A ghost town in the town of Warner, Clark County, Wisconsin.
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Etymology
From Middle English hemlok, hemeluc, from Old English hemlīc, hymlīc m and hymlīce f (“hemlock, bryony, convolvulus”), of uncertain origin. speculative etymology Compare Old English hymele (“hop-vine, hops”), Old English humele (“bryony, widerton, hair moss, gold-hair, morning glory”), Danish and Swedish humle (“hops”), Icelandic humall (“hops”). Perhaps from Scythian, from Proto-Iranian *háwHmah (“ephedra; juice”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sáwHmas from Proto-Indo-European *sewh₁- (“to press out, extract”). ;cognates * (from Sarmato-Scythian *haumala) Ossetian хумӕллӕг (xumællæg, “hops”) * (from Sarmato-Scythian *hauma) Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬊𐬨𐬀 (haoma), Baluchi [script needed] (hum), Persian هوم (hôm)) * (from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sauma) Sanskrit सोम (soma)) More at suck.